Menahan Street Band

Menahan Street Band
Menahan Street Band & Charles Bradley (Jazz Fest Wien 2011)
Background information
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genres	Afrobeat, funk, jazz, soul
Years active	2007 – present
Labels	Dunham Records, Daptone
Associated acts	Antibalas, Budos Band, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley
Members	Thomas Brenneck (guitar) Nick Movshon (bass) Homer Steinweiss (drums) Mike Deller (organ) Dave Guy (trumpet) Leon Michels (saxophone)

Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records.

Various songs from Make the Road by Walking have been sampled by hip hop artists, including the title track, which was sampled by Jay-Z on the track "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...", "Going The Distance", which was sampled by Kid Cudi on his song "Solo Dolo Pt.II" featuring Kendrick Lamar on Cudi's third studio album Indicud, and "The Traitor," sampled by 50 Cent on his mixtape War Angel LP and by Cudi on his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day. In addition, the song "Tired of Fighting" is used as a primary sample in Kendrick Lamar's "Faith" from his eponymous 2009 EP.